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By Peace Akinyode A former President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been granted access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts after a two-year ban. Meta, the parent company of both social media platforms, announced in January that it was ...

ÈNÌYÀN—We Have the Power to Choose Ènìyàn in Yoruba means a person. Ènìyàn is from the verb yàn (to choose). Ènìyàn means ẹni tí ó yàn—the one who chose. Before each one of us came from Òde Ọ̀run (Outer Source) ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says that it has found solutions to some of the impediments capable of hampering the general elections expected to start with the presidential polls on February 25. The commission for the umpteenth time also ...

In an interview on NTA Kaduna in July 1987, the late Gen. Hassan Usman Katsina was asked by the interviewer how he can compare the Governors of those days and his time (1966). This was his reply: “I am going ...

Early on Monday, an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale struck south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria. Another 7.6 magnitude earthquake occurred a few hours later. The death toll from Monday’s earthquake in Turkey has risen to 3,549, with ...

Suffer-Suffer For World My annual (NOT monthly) salary as a Senior Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1992 (right before I left for the United States) was N9,600. It’s not a typo. N9,600 only, for the entire year. How ...

I was already a lecturer in Nigeria in 1992, having got my BA in 1990.Life was tough for academics. The profession was seen as poor even by non-academics.The claim that academics were economically empowered is not true, as most were ...